Poetry is a very powerful way of communication between a writer and a reader. Different poets express them selves in a variety of ways, writing about what they have gone through or just simply what they dream about, both spiced up with twists and double meanings. Every reader gets a different reaction to a poem and everyone sees and interprets the poem in their own way. Unfortunately only author knows the true feeling and understanding of their own poem, all we can do is guess and put a big puzzle together. Although all the poems are differently written by different authors, many of them share common feelings and common reaction from readers.
             Out of several poems I have chosen to discuss "During a Son's Dangerous Illness" by Denise Levertov and "Lost Sister" by Cathy Song. The reason I have chosen these poems is because I found them pretty easy going and I could feel the author's emotions as they laid down the poem on a paper.
             Both poems are very different from each other, yet they share something in common. After reading the first poem, the feeling was very transparent, feeling of sadness, grief, helplessness and sorrow. Levertov seems to use figurative language in a very well described and explanatory way. Such lines as: "- Death ignores protocol, a sweep of it's cape brushes this one or that one at random...". We all know that Death is abstract and that it can not have a cape, yet that is the way "Death" is portrayed in art and society. We created this image in order for us to be reminded that not only death exists, we also need to physically see it and be afraid of it. In this case it was a very good example for a reader to feel the agony and feeling powerless against death. Line 30 through line 34, Levertov also talks about taking life for granted. "the whirling cinder we love but not enough...". Again we notice figurative language "whirling cinder" ...